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sadder | shadder |

As an adjective sadder

is (sad).

As a noun shadder is

.

sadder

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (sad)

    • Anagrams

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    sad

    English

    Adjective

    (sadder)
  • (label) Sated, having had one's fill; satisfied, weary.
  • (label) Steadfast, valiant.
  • *, Book V:
  • *:And thus they strekyn forth into the stremys, many sadde hunderthes.
  • (label) Dignified, serious, grave.
  • *, II.xi:
  • *:Vprose Sir Guyon, in bright armour clad, / And to his purposd iourney him prepar'd: / With him the Palmer eke in habit sad , / Him selfe addrest to that aduenture hard
  • *(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
  • *:ripe and sad courage
  • * (1467-1533)
  • *:which treaty was wisely handled by sad and discrete counsel of both parties
  • (label) Naughty; troublesome; wicked.
  • *(Isaac Taylor) (1787–1865)
  • *:Sad tipsy fellows, both of them.
  • (label) Emotionally negative.
  • #Of colours: dark, deep; later, sombre, dull.
  • #*1646 , (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica , II.5:
  • #*:this is either used crude, and called Sulphur Vive, and is of a sadder colour; or after depuration, such as we have in magdeleons of rolls, of a lighter yellow.
  • #*(Izaak Walton) (c.1594-1683)
  • #*:sad -coloured clothes
  • #* John Mortimer (1656?-1736)
  • #*:Woad, or wade, is used by the dyers to lay the foundation of all sad colours.
  • #Feeling sorrow; sorrowful, mournful.
  • #:
  • #*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • #*:First were we sad , fearing you would not come; / Now sadder, that you come so unprovided.
  • #*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • #*:The angelic guards ascended, mute and sad .
  • #Appearing sorrowful.
  • #:
  • #Causing sorrow; lamentable.
  • #:
  • #*
  • #*:The Great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, / For all their wars are merry and all their songs are sad .
  • #*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=20 citation , passage=The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad .}}
  • #Poor in quality, bad; shameful, deplorable; later, regrettable, poor.
  • #:
  • #*1819 , (Lord Byron), , II.127:
  • #*:Heaven knows what cash he got, or blood he spilt, / A sad old fellow was he, if you please.
  • (label) Unfashionable; socially inadequate or undesirable.
  • :
  • (label) Soggy (to refer to pastries).
  • (label) Heavy; weighty; ponderous; close; hard.
  • :sad bread
  • *(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
  • *:his hand, more sad than lump of lead
  • * John Mortimer (1656?-1736)
  • *:Chalky lands are naturally cold and sad .

    • Synonyms

    * (feeling mentally uncomfortable) discomforted, distressed, uncomfortable, unhappy * (low in spirits) depressed, down in the dumps, glum, melancholy * poignant, touching * (causing sorrow) lamentable * (poor in quality) pitiful, sorry * See also * See also

    Antonyms

    * happy * cheerful * gleeful, upbeat * decent

    Derived terms

    * sadness

    Related terms

    * sadden

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    Anagrams

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    shadder

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • *{{quote-book, year=1872, author=John Hay, et al., title=Not Pretty, But Precious, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Nex' room my boy lies in the shadder an' dark. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1876, author=Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), title=The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=We spotted the shadder to a dot." }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1904, author=Marietta Holley, title=Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=And I see with joy that the shadder on my pardner's face lifted quite a little durin' our stay there, but of course this belated us and we didn't git to St. Louis till Saturday late in the afternoon. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1906, author=Henry Wallace Phillips, title=Mr. Scraggs, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=And yet that Chink had the innocentest face in Utah; he might ha' stood for a picture of Adam before Eve cast a shadder on his manly brow. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1916, author=Francis Lynde, title=The Taming of Red Butte Western, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="If I didn't know better, I'd swear that was Hallock again--or Hallock's shadder follerin' him at a good long range!" }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1966, author=Ambrose Bierce, title=The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=But ole Sim Salper is never a-goin' to fret hisself to a shadder about it. }}